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I am really sorry for my terrible written English. But can anyone tell me, is it true that Bernkaster from Umineko has some connection to Rika Furude or Frederica Bernkastel from Higurashi?
Are there any confirmation of this? Any canon material or author interview?

Battler/Beatrice - Takes place in an EP3-ish setting. Beatrice asks Battler help to defeat Evatrice who took over the gameboard.
Battler/Rosa - Takes place in an EP2-ish setting.
Battler/Kanon - Culprit!Battler with Accomplice!Kanon commiting the murders.

The list goes on. OMK shouldn't be considered as canon, since most of its endings don't follow it.

If the ???? sections of Episode 1 and 2 didn't make that clear, her piece's name being 'Furudo Erika' should have.

The exact nature of that connection is of course open to debate, but it's pretty obviously there.

I understand that there are plenty of hints, but it could just be fanservice.
There are people who claim that umineko and higurashi has no relationship to each other, as there is no evidence of this.
Umineko wikia says

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It has been stated in an interview that she is the personality of the 100-year-old witch Rika seperated herself from in Saikoroshi-hen and is the crystallization of only the cruelest parts left over from the 100-year-old witch. It is possible this 100-year-old witch is Frederica.

There's no need for an interview to confirm what is esplicitly shown in Saikoroshi-hen.

Spoiler for Saikoroshi-hen:

In that extra chapter of Higurashi it is indeed said that Frederica Bernkastel and Rika separated. You can see it as a somehow an even better ending for Rika, so that she can live a normal life after the events of Matsuribayashi.
Though Frederica Bernkastel "existed" even before the split so I don't know what that quote is talking about.

That fact described in Saikoroshi-hen lead to the theory that the split Frederica Bernkastel is the Bernkastel we see in Umineko. However there is no clear confirmation.

Ryuukishi confirmed that Bernkastel does work as a connection between Higurashi and Umineko, but he didn't specify how.

This is the reason he created Bernkastel in order to put a direct link between Umineko and Higurashi.

The interpretations vary depending on your take of the metaworld and the "sea of kakera".

Spoiler for Umineko ending:

If you think that's real, then you can conclude that the many kakera from "Umineko" and "Higurashi" exist in the same "sea" and that Bernkastel (originating from Higurashi) can travel through them at will.

The other interpretation is that the metaworld is a mere metaphor of the collective imagination, and that the various kakera of the "sea of kakera" are just fictional stories and not actual alternate universes.
From this perspective Higurashi in Umineko would be just a story in which the character Bernkastel was first created. And Ikuko would be the author that created her and named her after her cat.

There might be other theories but these are the ones I know. Anyway what matters is that neither was officially confirmed or disconfirmed.

It's been a long time since I've been here, hasn't it? I've kinda been locked out of the Umineko loop for a while, and I've only been brought back into it because of a YouTube comment by one "SakutaroChannel3" made in response to one I made about the quality and success anime. Eventually our "discussion" (well, argument) led to the commentor making this multi-comment statement:

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I partly agree with you opinion, but your opinion of Umineko anime not selling well is totally a wrong information that is being spread upon western fans of Umineko.

When Umineko anime was finished, only EP4 was coming out (when they started making anime, only EP2 was released), and Umineko was not﻿ popular at all when the anime was made. For example, Umineko VN only sold less than 10,000 copies before the anime was made, and it was like 1/80 sales of Higurashi VN.

So, they﻿ know that Umineko DVD will not sell in quantity, they sat DVD price higher than other anime DVD and aimed 1000 sales per 1 Umineko DVD.

However, DVD sold much more than DEEN expected. Each Umineko DVD gradually sold around 2,000 copies. Because Umineko anime budget was low and the price of DVD was high, they made a nice profit out of it.

So, the reputation of Umineko anime by DEEN was very nice and Umineko became popular because of it's anime.

I hope you to spread this true information about Umineko anime.

Those fake rumors of "DEEN screwed up Umineko" is﻿ a false fact, which is being spread by the original VN worshipers who try to ruin DEEN's reputaion, and this negative campaign is a big loss for Umineko overall.

The commenter said it was because EP5 and EP6 were terrible. I wonder if they meant that Chiru is downright impossible to adapt within a 26-episode format.

I hope they meant that, because EP5-6 are nowhere near "Terrible" .

Whole Chiru is, according to my book, amazing.

Plus, how can studio decide not to animate a certain thing just because of their subjective opinion? So that's why the "Chiru is impossible to adapt" thing makes more sense.

Or they knew the fans wouldn't want another season because of the reputation the anime received after people read the VN. Personally, I want to see Chiru Anime for sole reason to watch Erika (Who made Umineko what it is today) animated.

Considering that's the first time I've ever heard that the anime isn't an awful failure, and considering that there was no second season even though they milked Higurashi for all it was worth......yeah, I don't have the statistics, but I'm pretty sure this guy's just wrong.